MEMORIAL OF JOHN C. HOVEY. 209 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 2, 1894. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

 o'clock, the President, Nathaniel T. Kidder, in the chair. 



John G. Barker announced the decease of John C. Hovey, who 

 had long been associated with other members in the active service 

 of the Society ; and moved that a committee be appointed to 

 prepare a suitable memorial of him. The motion was carried, and 

 the Chair appointed as the committee, Charles H. B. Breck, John 

 G. Barker, and Charles N. Brackett. 



Dr. Daniel D. Slade, of Chestnut Hill, 

 having been recommended by the Executive Committee as a 

 member of the Society, was, on ballot, duly elected. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, July 7, 1894. 

 A duly notified Stated Meeting of the Society was holden at 

 eleven o'clock, the President, Nathaniel T. Kidder, in the chair. 



The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, 

 reported from that Committee a recommendation that the Society 

 appropriate twenty-four dollars to pay the prizes awarded by the 

 Committee on Publication and Discussion of 1893, to the Chair- 

 men of Awarding Committees of 1892, for their Annual Reports; 

 and that these prizes be paid by the present Committee on Publi- 

 cation and Discussion. The report was accepted, and the 

 appropriation was voted. 



Charles H. B. Breck, Chairman of the Committee appointed at 

 the last meeting to prepare a memorial of John C. Hovey, read 

 the following report : 



Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from the 

 scenes of life our associate and friend, John C. Hovey, who for 

 many years was a most useful member of this Society : therefore, 



